Year 2 (Summer 2023)

Summer Camp for Year 2 (May 15 – June 15)

31 students attended the summer camp in-person or virtually. We started with a mini-workshop on the first day. The program consisted of three speakers from UH who gave seminars on Energy Transition:

Chuck McConnell - Energy Center Officer, Center for Carbon Management in Energy, University of Houston
Joseph Powell - Executive Director, Energy Transition Institute, University of Houston
Ramanan Krishnamoorti - Chief Energy Officer and Vice President, Energy and Innovation, University of Houston

Cohort 1 gave poster presentations on their research projects:

Team 1: Rate of Penetration Prediction Using Machine Learning Models (Winner)
Team 2: Predicting Magma Fertility for Porphyry Copper Exploration Using Machine Learning (Runner-up)
Team 3: The Future is Bright with Solar Forecast (Runner-up)
Team 4: Exploring the Relationship Between Saltwater Disposal Wells and Earthquake Magnitudes in Oklahoma, 2019 (Poster 1 | Poster 2)
Team 5: Project Crystal Ball Earth: Earthquake Travel-Time Prediction
Team 6: Empowering the Energy Sector with AI: Forecasting Well Bottom Hole Temperature with Machine Learning Techniques on Geophysical Data

Overview of Summer Camp Curriculum and Schedule

Week 1: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning
Week 2: Machine Learning and Data Visualization
Week 3: Geoscience
Week 4: Statistics and Neural Networks
Week 5: Public Policy

We concluded with a series of seminars by speakers from industry on the last day (June 15):

Dr. Cheolkyun Jeong - Schlumberger
Dr. Shuang (Shela) Jiang - Waste Management
Brent Railey - Chevron Phillips Chemical
Dr. Luchao (Lucas) Jin - eBay
Dr. Pandu Devarakota - Shell

Year 2 (Summer 2023) Photos